On that day in the Desolate Meadow, after their naked conversation, Huo Yan returned to the camp and locked himself in his residence. He did not come out for a whole ten days.
On the eleventh day, Huo Yan, who looked like he had lost a lot of weight, found Lu Chen.
In the dark Priest's stone house, Huo Yan opened his mouth. He looked tired and a little pained, but more than that, he had an uncontrollable desire.
"Tell me the method," he said.
Lu Chen smiled in the dim shadows. Then, he took out the intact Fire God's Staff and threw it to Huo Yan. "The key lies in this."
He smiled and looked satisfied. His whole person was gentle and polite. He did not look like a person who would plant the seeds of hatred in this tribe and lay the groundwork for the future bloody battles of the tribe.
Did this man ever think of this?
Huo Yan looked at the black-robed Priest in silence, then looked at the Fire God's Staff in his hand. He slowly tightened his grip on it and closed his eyes.
…
The Black Fire Tribe, which had suddenly risen like a raging fire and swept across the northern part of the Wilderness in the blink of an eye like a raging tide, was originally a mysterious tribe. Especially when their actions were gradually attracting the attention of the more powerful tribes in the south, the Black Fire Tribe suddenly stopped in their tracks.
There was almost no sign in between. The Black Fire Tribe seemed to have become harmless all of a sudden, calmly staying in the northern part of the Wilderness.
This made the originally worried southern tribes heave a sigh of relief. From the reports of their spies, every piece of information showed that the Black Fire Tribe seemed to be really satisfied. Their ambitions were limited to the barren northern land. They were in awe of the large tribes in the Southern Wilderness, as well as the many powerful Shamans, Venerables, and High Priests of the War God Temple.
They even offered expensive gifts. Of course, what good things could there be in that barren wasteland? They didn't care about it at all. However, the chiefs were more interested in the Black Fire tribe's submissive attitude. In comparison, the War God Temple, which stood at the top of the Wasteland, wasn't interested in the small tribe that had just risen up in the north.
However, after hearing that the tribe had risen because they had found a new High Priest, one of the Venerables in the War God Temple seemed to have paid attention to this. He ordered a few High Priests to go to the north to take a look and figure out the situation.
At the same time, some people in the War God Temple remembered that a rising priest of the temple had gone to the Mountain Spirit Tribe in the north some time ago, but there was no news of him since then.
It was said that the Mountain Spirit Tribe had been destroyed in the war with the Black Fire Tribe, and the priest had gone missing. The Shamans and Venerables didn't care about this matter, but there were still a few good friends of the priest in the War God Temple. They secretly pushed for an investigation of what had happened.
In short, during the period of the sudden rise of the Black Fire Tribe, the world was still developing peacefully. As for the undercurrents under the calm, most people wouldn't know about it.
…
Time passed day by day. The Black Fire Tribe wasn't actually very peaceful. There were always many things happening every day. It wasn't easy for the few tribes that had been destroyed by the Black Fire Tribe and the captives that were captured to integrate into the Black Fire Tribe. They were resistant, and the people from the Black Fire Tribe often didn't like them.
In the most important aspect of faith, even though Lu Chen and Huo Yan had forcefully suppressed it from the beginning and forced the tribesmen to give up their faith in the God, it wasn't that easy. Therefore, they still found and captured many people who had secretly worshiped the God. Huo Yan didn't show them any mercy and killed them in front of the entire tribe.
The blood shocked and frightened the people. This temporarily suppressed the matter, but there were still more troublesome things.
The sudden rise of the Black Fire Tribe had caused the ambition of the young and proud barbarian warriors of the tribe to soar. They had plundered a lot of wealth, women, and servants through the war of slaughtering the other tribes, but they still wanted more.
They wanted to go south. They wanted to wield their blood-stained blades and rob the rich tribes in the south. Legend had it that the southern and southern regions were the real paradise, with mountains of gold and seas of silver, milk flowing everywhere, and beautiful women like immortals.
Huo Yan had a headache dealing with these simple-minded fools. They were idiots, but he had to be clear-headed. Fortunately, these days, his prestige in the Black Fire Tribe had risen. No one dared to openly defy him, so he managed to suppress the matter.
However, similar disputes and requests would still pop up every two or three days, making him very annoyed.
In contrast, Lu Chen's life was much more relaxed. He had never cared about these trivial matters of the Black Fire Tribe. Even if it was his idea to capture captives, replenish the population of the Black Fire Tribe, and force them to give up their faith, it was also his idea. But now, he seemed to have nothing to do with it, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
He was beginning to prepare for his return to the north.
Coming to the Southern Wilderness was a complete accident for Lu Chen. He had no feelings for this vast land, nor did he have any sense of belonging to the barbarians here. He was like a passer-by, coldly watching everything that happened here.
Perhaps it was because of this mentality that the decisions he made in the process of helping Huo Yan revive the Black Fire Tribe were especially cold-blooded and unyielding. Perhaps he didn't care about the blood that was spilled and the people that died in the process.
If he could, he even wanted to leave immediately. But of course, this matter couldn't be so casual. Huo Yan and the Black Fire Tribe still had many things that they needed his help with. The first was the problem of a new priest.
And this would also take a long time.
Fortunately, Lu Chen had already cultivated a patience that was hard to be matched by ordinary people in his past life as a shadow. Like the Black Fire Tribe, he silently went into hiding, and then did what he had to do, while waiting for Huo Yan's decision.
…
In the selection of a new priest, Huo Yan had been very determined to reject outsiders, and insisted on only choosing his own children who were born in the Black Fire Tribe. But this decision was quickly shaken after he learned the secret from Lu Chen.
At the same time, Lu Chen also told him once again that there was no suitable candidate in the Black Fire Tribe.
"This is impossible!"
That night, after confirming the news from Lu Chen, almost half of the Black Fire Camp could hear the roar coming from the dark priest's stone house. But although they were angry, it didn't have much use. On the last piece of paper that Lu Chen handed over, Huo Yan quickly fell into silence as he looked at the names written on it.
Lu Chen sat down beside him and said, "In this tribe's camp, I found a total of seven people who have the potential to be a priest. One from the Mountain Spirit Tribe, two from the Sacred Wood Tribe, and the most from the Thunder Lizard Tribe, with four."
Lu Chen didn't say anything else, but his meaning was very clear. The rest would be decided by Huo Yan.
Huo Yan was silent for a long time, then lowered his voice and said, "If this thing is made public, I'm afraid that the brothers of the Black Fire Tribe will rebel. They might even raise their weapons and kill people." He raised his head to look at Lu Chen, and said with a rare serious expression, "Is there really no one in the Black Fire Tribe? Even if there is one, it will be enough!"
Lu Chen shook his head and said, "I can't find one."
The muscles on Huo Yan's face contorted as he stared at the piece of paper. Abruptly, his gaze froze, as though he had discovered something. Furrowing his brows, he asked Lu Chen, "This person named Ye, could it be that she's your serving girl?"
"Yes," Lu Chen replied.
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